This anthology assembles notes that address a wider spectrum of concern within the social sciences, as well as higher education and design and planning issues. The essays, articles and book reviews gathered here allow for an easy, and holistic, assessment of publications that cover various themes and were written during the past two decades. In addition,  four chapters specifically written for this volume are included, two dealing with academic productivity, and the remaining two addressing aspects of economics and issues of design.

 

Table of Contents:

 

Strategic Planning (on Henry Mintzberg)

Chess and the Brain (on Diego Rasskin-Gutman)

Business Schools (on Rakesh Khurana)

American Hegemony (on John Krige)

MIT at 150

The Paradox of Scientific Authority (on Wiebe E. Bijker,  Roland Bal and  Ruud Hendriks)

Gender Equality

Adjunct Labor (on  Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke)

German Intellectuals (on A. Dirk Moses)

Judaism and Religion (on Leora Batnitzky)

Crime and Punishment (on Mark A. R. Kleiman)

The Poverty of Economics (on H. Gintis et al., S. Bowles et al, and Peter Hammerstein)

The Enigma of Knowledge

Change Management

Excellence

Productivity

Growth, Change and Excess